General-medical hospital admissions from a public inpatient psychiatric health facility: A review of medical complications over 30 months

Psychosomatics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 498-502

  Leung, Margaret W ^a   Xiong, Glen L ^a   Leamon, Martin H ^a   Mccarron, Robert M ^a   Hales, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REVIEW;

EID: 78649673543     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.51.6.498     Document Type: Review

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